Eric Cheng Leaves Aperture for Lightroom
Posted November 2nd, 2009 @ 08:25am by Erik J. Barzeski
I never encountered any of the problems he's had - though I have had instances where my images get thumbnails from an entirely different image - but my library is small compared to his (12,500), and I agree with him about "existing bugs that never get fixed." I think camera support has gotten better and faster, but the rest of his issues remain:
- Ridiculously slow update cycle
- Long wait for new camera support
- Small bugs left unfixed for years
- Adjustments not improved in dot version upgrades
- Previews unusable in practice (must be disabled for reasonable performance)
- No XMP sidecar support (adjustments and keywords trapped in Aperture forever)
- SQL Lite database is terribly slow and can take Aperture down
- Frequent database corruption
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